My background is also in academia and years of academic writing tend to really mess with your head when you're writing for the general public. I think I'm doing a good job writing for the latter, and my academic writing was always, I'm told, literary and beautiful (you know, for academic writing) but it takes conscious effort to do so because they writing is so different.
My background is also in academia and years of academic writing tend to really mess with your head when you're writing for the general public. I think I'm doing a good job writing for the latter, and my academic writing was always, I'm told, literary and beautiful (you know, for academic writing) but it takes conscious effort to do so because they writing is so different.
Yes absolutely! It took me a few years to really feel like I could effectively differentiate the two